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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNobody in the Trump Klan has ever served in the US military.
No grandparents
No parents
No aunts or uncles
No children
No grandchildren
IggleDuer
(964 posts)N/T
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)If you asked 100 random people on the street, you'd find some military service within one remove or generation for nearly all of them. The Trumps have none, anywhere in their family tree. It's remarkable.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)My father, four uncles, and one great-uncle in World War II, plus me during the Vietnam era. Also had cousins serve during Korea and Vietnam.
keithbvadu2
(36,869 posts)"I feel like a great and very brave soldier"
dchill
(38,516 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)war. Youd think a chunk of military wouldnt support him. But they hate too.
kskiska
(27,045 posts)but his father threatened to disown him. He had it written in Marla's pre-nup that Tiffany's support would cease if she joined the Peace Corps or the military.
Dan
(3,579 posts)The reason the the Trump (Drumpt) family left Germany was because of refusal to serve in the millitary.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)RockRaven
(14,985 posts)When was the last time any of them served anywhere?
Grandpappy Whorehouse Trump got the boot from Bavaria for skiving off military service. Maybe his father served, given that GWT was apparently born in Bavaria, so his father had maybe done his compulsory duty and was still "legal" at the time? That guy's youth would have been mid 1800s or so.
keithbvadu2
(36,869 posts)The Trumps are not shy about proclaiming how much they have 'sacrificed'.
Visit to Arlington Cemetery reminded Donald Trump Jr. of all his family's 'sacrifices,' he writes
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/visit-to-arlington-cemetery-reminded-donald-trump-jr-of-all-his-family-s-sacrifices-he-writes-1.606501
RockRaven
(14,985 posts)I'm at the burn, and at Diaper Don. Which I was anyway. So at least I chuckled a bit, I guess. Thanks for that in these dark times.
Patterson
(1,531 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,803 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)She was 16 when he died, and looks about that age in the pic.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,650 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,280 posts)... just as he threatened to do to Donald Jr.
It's all part of a pattern of condemning military service in the most extreme way.
shanti
(21,675 posts)are draft dodgers, cowards, takers and conmen, and it seems it was passed down from father to son. Horrid family.